Efficient, cost-effective people management has become mission-critical for most businesses. You can’t afford to select an HR solution only to find that it lacks the functionality you really need, nor can many companies handle the disruption and cost of switching solutions if one doesn’t work out. Doing thorough due diligence on the front end pays off. You might already have a list of questions in mind to ask prospective vendors, but the following pages contain the top ten questions many vendors hope you DON’T ask. The answers will tell you what you really need to know and help you pick the best solution for the greatest value, effectiveness, and long-term use.
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More and more, engagement, or lack thereof, is cited as a reason people leave jobs. How do you foster engagement and when does it start? By providing your new hire with a strong first impression, you can forge a lasting bond that benefits employee and employer as well as the organization as a whole. A number of factors influence successful onboarding of new hires. Read this white paper to discover 10 new hire best practices that can ease new employees’ entry into your organization and help turn new hires into passionate, productive team players.
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In an economic climate characterized by cost-cutting and increased regulatory requirements, HR faces growing demands to communicate the value it creates in ways that CEOs can better appreciate. That means moving away from soft measurements such as “improvements” and adopting quantifiable metrics similar to those executives use to monitor the overall business. Meaningful HR metrics can include things such as recruitment costs, employee retention rates, and employee satisfaction metrics. With such metrics in hand, HR is better able to deliver additional value, savings, and increased productivity to the business. Read this white paper to learn more about the benefits of using BI tools to deliver strategic metrics to HR.
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For HR leaders who are considering automation to transform their people management processes, gaining a full understanding of the significant advantages offered from true cloud technology should be a first step. Those organizations already using automated solutions via on-premise software will also want to weigh out the options of switching to cloud delivery for greater efficiency. This white paper dispells some common myths about cloud delivery and looks at the key benefits of HCM automation in the cloud.
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With the right reporting and business intelligence tools, HR can help provide visibility into the company’s workforce, leading to improved financial results and sound, fact-based human capital management decisions. By looking beyond soft measures, you can identify what factors contribute to the company’s success, as well as areas that may be negatively impacting long-term goals, and even begin to forecast future workforce trends. This e-guide outlines reports and tools that HR professionals can turn to when delivering data to executives, as well as tips for more effectively utilizing workforce data for better human capital investment decisions.
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Even the most seasoned HR professionals can find themselves trapped in the same administrative time drains day after day. This eBook gives five technology tips that allow you to work smarter and reclaim hours of lost time in the day while making your entire organization more productive. By streamlining and automating routine, time-consuming activities you’ll be able to spend more time on strategic, value-added activities and less time on administration.
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Fostering employee engagement is critical to creating an effective, innovative workplace. Increased employee engagement has the potential to positively impact your entire organization, and bring about higher accountability to performance across the board. Employee engagement is also a key factor in career development—engaged employees are far more likely to be effective and charismatic leaders. This white paper looks at ways to measure and increase employee engagement, so that your company can reap the benefits of an engaged workforce, including improved productivity, better customer service, increased employee retention, and increased customer retention.
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Demand for global workforce visibility and insight is huge; yet many HR teams today are only able to produce data on what is currently happening or what occurred in the past. But HR needs to move beyond “what occurred,” applying full analytical capabilities to understand “why an event happened” so proactive changes can be made to improve overall business performance. This type of complex exploration and examination, where financial implications and cause and effect are studied, helps elevate HR to the most strategic level—transforming the HR manager to HCM strategist. Read this white paper to discover how cohesive business intelligence can proactively impact your organization.
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Too often, it’s easy to overlook the minutiae of payroll processes, which can result in costly errors and time-consuming corrections. Even the smallest of payroll slip-ups can snowball into long-term issues and increased expenses, and some blunders make organizations vulnerable to regulatory fines and penalties. The good news: most common mistakes are avoidable. Auditing, testing, reporting, and other “checks and balances” can confirm that your payroll is accurate the first time. But when mistakes happen, it’s important to determine what occurred and why, and then identify the root causes so they don’t happen again. Read this white paper to discover some of the top 10 payroll pitfalls, along with practical ways to prevent them.
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The government of Mesa County, Colorado, had been using an in-house, nonintegrated HR and payroll solution that was slow in processing reports and required manual reconciliation of workforce data. The solution also lacked the sophistication needed to manage the government’s payroll and reporting demands. The organization recognized that a change was necessary to improve the workforce-related information that upper-level management had at its disposal.
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With 10 remote office locations spread across nine states, Amerisure was in need of a communications platform that would enable the company to enhance the distribution of information to employees. Employees located in satellite offices, with no direct access to the home office, can feel disconnected from corporate headquarters’ operations and activities. Amerisure needed to communicate to employees in a timely manner that would allow the flow of accurate, important information, whether that data be employee-specific, such as salary, job, or benefit information, or company news and updates. In addition to a centralized communication platform, the company wanted heightened management of its workforce through the use of business intelligence tools that would allow it to track trends and have improved monitoring capabilities for each location.
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With a focus on marketing, sales, and distribution of the company’s interactive entertainment products, Nintendo of America’s 180 “managers of image” market Nintendo’s games throughout the United States and parts of Canada. Because these managers spend the bulk of their time visiting retail operations to successfully brand the Nintendo product, the company was searching for a way to communicate detailed information to them, as well as to the rest of the company’s workforce. Nintendo also wanted to simplify the benefits enrollment process for employees and allow them to change their personal data on their own and at their convenience, without contacting the HR department.
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This document explains Ultimate Software’s Intersourcing application and how it will benefit the company using it. Intersourcing is a hosting solution; this means the application is managed, supported and upgraded by an application service provider (ASP). Learn why application hosting makes sense for your organization.
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It's not easy being in human resources (HR). Globalization, a challenging economy, advances in technology, a competitive labor market, and a more fluid workforce have all had a significant impact on the way that HR executives do their jobs. In addition, the field is becoming increasingly more complex. Learn how integrating business intelligence (BI) with HR can generate efficiencies and make strategic decisions around staffing.
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This case study outlines LDM Technologies’ transition to Ultimate Software’s UltiPro solution from paper-based human resources (HR) processes and outsourced payroll management. Learn how by using a paperless system, LDM eliminated inappropriate benefits payments and received a 286 percent return on investment (ROI) within five months.
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National Equipment Services (NES), a leader in the equipment rental industry, experienced the concomitant growing pains associated with 47 acquisitions spanning an 18 month period beginning in 1998. In this case study, learn how NES saved $250,000 annually in payroll and administration costs.
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To ensure the integrity of the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation, the gaming authority is held accountable to the Native American Tribal Government. The gaming authority is required to provide detailed reports to its governing bodies regarding employee ethnicity and budgets. This information ensures that the gaming authority is acting in accordance with tribal regulations. Payroll processing and benefit tracking in this casino environment are fraught with many complexities. As a hospitality-based company, most of Tohono O’odham’s employees receive tips that need to be recognized as income. The company treats accruals and benefits in a unique fashion as it allows employees to carry over benefits from year to year and even receive accruals for accruals.
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Ruth's Chris went live with UltiPro in December 2001, just six short months after choosing UltiPro. Link said that Ultimate Software provided an excellent value proposition for the steak house because Ruth's Chris's analyses revealed that the restaurant chain could expect a rapid return on investment (ROI). An expedient, cost-effective implementation was a major factor in this return, as was the elimination of monthly per paycheck charges.
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This case study describes how operational inefficiencies that resulted from overlap in human resources (HR) and payroll service delivery seem to have been overcome with the consolidation of services. Learn how Credit Lyonnais saved time and money, improved data accuracy and control, and enhanced and expatiated reporting capabilities.
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The Container Store’s growing employee base rendered communications with employees, updating manuals, managing paperwork, and obtaining relevant benefits reports more time consuming and complex. Ultimate Software’s UltiPro Workforce Management solution streamlined the management of payroll and benefits, while reducing administration.
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This case study describes the complexity of human resource management systems (HRMS)/payroll management when merging two organizations and how Ultimate Software’s UltiPro Workforce Management software helped solve the new challenges arisen from the merger.
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